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\begin{description}
\item [COTS] Commercial, off-the-shelf.
\item [GPL] GNU General Public License.
\item [GUI] Graphical User Interface.
\item [IEEE] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
\item [KDE] K Desktop Environment.
\item [MIE] Made In Egypt.
\item [SVG] Scalable Vector Graphics.
\item [UI] User Interface.
\item [UML] Unified Modeling Language.
\end{description}

